Using Limewire to pirate Limewire Pro
You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Archer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Limonene@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And it was GPL, so it wasn’t even copyright infringement.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have never used Limewire, but if they had distributed binaries that you should pay for, it is a copyright infringement, even if you could technically compile it yourself. There are applications that do this and it’s compatible with GPL license.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And when you downloaded “Yoursong.mp3.exe” you knew you were about to have the best day ever!
(To this day it amazes me how so many people don’t pay attention to file types and keeps them hidden.)
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I blame Windows, as it (I believe) hid file extensions of known file types by default. Was it, because it was aesthetically more pleasing? I dunno but it sure was a hazard for the unaware user.
Limonene@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Their entire security model depends on knowing file extensions, but they still hide them. Even if you enable it, there are some extensions that still won’t show, like .lnk (shortcut file). You can absolutely have executable code, and therefore malware in a .lnk file.
Dicska@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While it’s super annoying for the tech savvy, and gives a great opportunity to ill willed tech people, I’m sure it was an idiot proofing move. The average user is a not-so-tech-savvy office person, having relatively fuck all knowledge on extensions, and back in the time pretty much all programs got picky when facing an unknown/unsupported extension. Your average Joe/Jolene opened ‘veryimportantspreadsheet.xls’, renamed it to ‘veryimportantspreadsheetnew’ (without the extension), and made it impossible for Excel to open it by double clicking. Then in the best case they triggered an IT support request; in the worst case they reported that the very important spreadsheet got lost/corrupted and data was lost.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And most porn was that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off.
superkret@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Fuck you for triggering that memory.
I can still hear the sounds he made.GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I remember actually searching that one out to see. Strange what you’ll do when you’re a teenager.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Was that the Chechen rebel video because I hated that
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Napster was so early that most folks didn’t have the bandwidth and CPU speed to deal with decent-quality video yet, so it initially only did MP3s. I think some folks forget about it because they didn’t get into the piracy scene until they could get TV shows/movies/software etc.
f314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I vividly remember spending twenty minutes downloading a single song over my 56k modem 🥲
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
No, the real problem was that Napster had central servers that could easily be taken down via litigation. Limewire was fully P2P so there was no single point of failure.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I still have a few folders of music from Napster.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
Napster was feature poor though. CuteMX was much, much better and out while Napster was still running, but it closed down after Napster lost the court case. Feature set was closer to Kazaa, including filters and being able to browse a user’s shares.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I originally started with eMule
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a “new leaked Nine Inch Nails song” called “Digital” that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).
It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:
Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject
I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.
I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck’s "Devil’s Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it’s not).
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Somewhere in my files I still have the recording of a hoarse male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.
Probably fake but I want to believe.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I actually still have songs in my playlist that I discovered the same way. A lot of the saints were incorrectly labeled so it was hard to make sure you got the right one without listening to it. Found a lot of unknown artists this way.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Dude what is this Tetris one. I remember this too.
I also remember some some that was by a dj called dj triangle and it was a super high tempo song with all kinds of songs mixed in. Haven’t found it since those days.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
And sometimes things you really really didn’t want.
emberpunk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Fake system of a down - link song was golden.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Duuuude. I just decided to look this up on chatgpt. I had no idea that was NOT system of a down. Sounds exactly like serj lol. I used to crank that shit. Be sure link. He come to town. Come to save! The princess Zelda!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
please don’t “Look things up” on chatgpt, use an actual search engine…
emberpunk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
haha that’s funny. Sorry to break the news though.
2deck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Download Worms.exe
I just wanted to play worms
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Liero was an amazing contender
thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Link - he come to town He come to save - the princess Zelda
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
the high seas hace grown more treacherous, but you still can.
ilega_dh@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Today it’s harder, not more dangerous.
But also everything is darker.
modus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In what way?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
many governments will snitch on you if they find you doing it. some countries need a vpn to hide yourself now.
LordBelphegor@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
lots of free viruses too.
stonedtemplepilot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My PC got AIDS once from Limewire Lite, true story.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Step 1. Download Kazaa Lite Step 2. Use Kazaa Lite to download Kazaa Step 3. Profit
OR3X@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Using LimeWire free to download LimeWire Pro. Classic.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free
Nikelui@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Learning to torrent is what greatly increased my computer literacy when I was a kid.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Or dumb songs with swooshes in them lol
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Hey does anyone remember searching for the movie XXX with Vin Diesel? What a fun time…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.
If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Private trackers have gotten way better. I think they’ve figured out how to retain obscure and rare things. At least RED, GGn, OPH, BTN and PTP have. I’m sure there are others.
Come back to torrenting if you feel trapped by subscriptions and enshittification. There is a bar to entry, but it ain’t too bad.
I do miss the weird fake tracks. There was a whole 3rd “Portishead” album that fake.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I kinda wanna look up who actually made that “Link, he come to town!” song. Because it sure as hell was not System of a Down. lol
unphazed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Know anyone with invites to acid lounge? I let my account lapse for like 5 years, and cannot get back in, bo matter how many attempts at requesting.
indomara@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used to have a demonoid account too! Back then I could just torrent anything without a care…
Now I would need a VPN and a ton of reading to even begin. Sad times.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.
This is literally how I got introduced to several bands I never would have heard otherwise. Missing one track off one album, downloading…this definitely isn’t the right track, but who is this? And now I need to download another 8 albums by that band…
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Limewire was the rotten version of Kazaa, Kazaa lite and Bearshare. Loads of viruses and mallware. By the time Limewire was there, torrents were already so much better, but usenet has always been, and still are far superior. I pay €9,50 for usenet and download anything I want. No more streaming services, just fully automated movie and series downloads with Radarr and Sonarr. It runs on my NAS, so every morning I have new episodes downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed and placed in the right series folders. I have more rights, better quality, no ads, better service, subtitles, log of what I watched with Kodi, I can stream what I want to watch from my NAS from all around the world.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Fuck me i haven’t thought of bearshare in 10 years
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
10? Only 10? Last time I used it was at least 20 years ago. I’m almost 38, I used it when I was 16
creamlike504@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
It was FREE.
But at what cost?
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
EVERYTHING!
KneeTitts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I did download a car
oeLLph@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was using Soulseek in 2005 just before Boards of Canada put out The Campfire Headphase, and I must have grabbed a fake because the version I heard sounded nothing like them and I didn’t care for it. Many years later I would realize my mistake, and the real thing is my favorite album of theirs, but I still wonder what that fakeout album actually was.
frunch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BoC!!! 🩵🥂
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Still used today for FLACs
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
FUCK, YEAH!!!
obvs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Before torrenting kicked off, this was one of the only ways you could ever get anything. And it was great!
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dc++ as well
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
You never hung out on IRC warez channels getting stuff by DCC or by trading dodgy FTP servers? Young whippersnapper!
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Sure I did. Also, I’m going to go to use net news groups to download stuff. I hated that shit. One of the best things about LimeWire was autoresume downloads that got terminated because your connection dropped.
Carrot@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Still can brother 🏴☠️
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
For those wondering check out Soulseek clients like Nicotine+. Even better, these days most of the files are well tagged.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Set to search only file sizes of >320 and revel in limitless FLACs.
Enzy@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“Turbo-Charged Connection”
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Hot damn! I can listen to the song I want about 2 hours from now!
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”
Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
That was painful.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Soulseek is an ad-free, spyware free, just plain free file sharing network for Windows, Mac and Linux. Our rooms, search engine and search correlation system make it easy for you to find people with similar interests, and make new discoveries!
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I once downloaded a 650MB movie in less than 10 minutes. I dont know how that was possible at the time as I had a sub 1 mbit line. I just know I went to the bathroom and came back to a downloaded movie. Always figured it was a bug of some kind on the modem as apparently the cable modem was doing the rate limiting.
thomcat@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Weird Al Yankovic - Oops I’m Pregnant Again (REAL).mp3
workerONE@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quality: 5 stars but it’s a 128mb MP3
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
SongYouWanted.mp3.txt.rar.zip.lnk.exe
rosco385@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).
coaxil@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Meh mule/donkey network ftw back then!
Vegeta@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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